that sometimes I have a dream that feels very scary at the time, but when I wake up and think about it, or even tell Dad about it, suddenly it just seems ridiculous that my dreaming self was scared.
Case in point: the dream that prompted my discussion with Dad. I dreamt I went back to work at my last workplace, only for some reason, we were now binding books, like I did at the job before that. All my co-workers from my previous job were there, and one of them, who's a total sweetheart IRL, was being super mean to me. I finally asked him why and he told me he knew I was just going to leave again. I woke up from that dream upset to the point of calling it fear, and yet there was nothing all that scary about the dream. Except the idea of having to go back to my former workplace to work...
OTOH, last night's work-related dream (I've been having a lot of those lately due to fretting about finding work) was downright absurd. I dreamt my previous job had been working at a gas station/mini mart. I went back just for a visit and my former boss was yelling at me for leaving without telling her (which I would never do IRL), and she was particularly mad because she'd made me a canoe, which she'd only ever previously done twice for an employee. Then a regular customer came in with her husband, and we were told he wasn't supposed to have any pop even though he loves it, and just after the wife said that, the husband stole a 2 liter of Pepsi from a display and made a break for it. But I somehow headed him off and wound up chasing him into a bathroom, which I then locked the door. Weird.
